On November 9th, sponsored by the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Nanjing Municipal Museum, and hosted by the Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall of the CPC delegation and the Nanjing Zhou Enlai Spiritual Research Association, the "Exhibition of the Handwriting of Dong Biwu" was launched in the temporary exhibition hall of the Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall. The exhibition lasts for a month, and in addition to a large number of handwriting, there are many cultural relics that have made their first public appearance.
Dong Biwu, born in 1886 in Hong'an County, Hubei Province, is one of the founders of the Communist Party of China. Throughout his life, he was a man of erudition, discernment, and a staunch Marxist-Leninist, but also an outstanding poet and calligrapher. He has a profound foundation in traditional Chinese studies, rich in poetry, especially fond of old style poetry, and has a deep foundation in calligraphy. His poems and handwritten works complement each other perfectly, which is a perfect combination of poetry and calligraphy, and has a high appreciation value.
In February 1956, Dong Biwu revisited the site of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China on Xingye Road in Shanghai, helped the staff recall relevant historical details, and wrote two inscriptions for the memorial, one of which was "Beginning and Beginning, General Bi Yeju". This sentence is derived from "Zhuangzi", the original text of "its beginning is also simple, and its will be great." "People extend it to the implication that any undertaking with a great future, even if it is insignificant at the time of its inception, is bound to develop very large when it is about to be completed.
According to Lin Jianying, deputy director of the Comprehensive Business Department of Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall, this exhibition exhibits nearly 100 inscription poems and inscription handwritings of Dong Biwu, which are selected from many handwritings inscribed by Dong Biwu from 1938 to 1975, many of which are on public display for the first time, such as Dong Biwu's "Four Absolute Sentences of Meiyuan Xincun Inscription" written for the Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall in 1960. These works were collected and copied by Dong Biwu's grandson Dong Shaoxin and granddaughter-in-law Huang Qiongzhen in museums, memorials, archives and other places across the country, and most of the originals of these handwriting have been designated as national cultural relics.
In order to better cooperate with the exhibition, the Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall specially exhibited more than ten pieces of Dong Biwu cultural relics in the collection, most of which are treasures that have not yet been publicly exhibited, and are graded revolutionary cultural relics, which are publicly unveiled for the first time in this exhibition. For example, the dark gray tweed top hat that Dong Biwu once wore during the Negotiations in Nanjing, the cotton and linen suit vest he wore, the black briefcase used, the four treasures of the study room, and the books signed by Dong Biwu.